Monthly Archives: January 2008

Long List of FCC Complaints

Long list of FCC complaints. This is just gold. “what bothers me is that the FCC over looks the Lords name in Vain. Why are you allowing something that is no different then murder in the eyes of many?”

January 31, 2008 – 5:55 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

Can we impeach him now?

Guess what? Bush intentionally lied to get us into the war in Iraq. Can we impeach him now?

January 23, 2008 – 10:37 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

A Weekend of Pain

This long weekend was a busy one for both Kelli and I. We moved from our condo on Indian Bend to our new place a few miles up the road. Kelli as usual did pretty much all the packing, but this time also got the distinct honor of doing most of the moving …

January 22, 2008 – 10:55 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Random, Weekend Update | Comments (0)

Anti Depressants? Not that great.

Turns out a full one third of drug studies showed anti-depressants had a negative or questionable effect. Surprisingly, that third were never published! I think there needs to be a law passed here. Or the FDA needs to pass new regulations on how drug tests are published.

January 17, 2008 – 4:21 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (2)

Steve’s Take on the Kindle

The Times has a short piece up on the new Apple announcements with a fun quote from Jobs on the Amazon Kindle:

“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last …

January 17, 2008 – 3:14 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Rambling, Random | Comments (3)

Huckabee is crazy

Huckabee wants to amend the constitution to reflect “God’s Standards”. Can we stop considering him a serious candidate now?

January 16, 2008 – 9:15 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

J.T. Gatto

It smacks of conspiracy, but this fascinating interview with J.T. Gatto quite thoroughly and scarily addresses many of the questions I’ve had about why our schools and our society seem broken at such a fundamental level.

January 15, 2008 – 9:22 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

Countrywide CEO Gets Up To $115 Million Parachute

This is just disgusting.

January 11, 2008 – 4:24 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

Follow up

While reading about another web nerd fight I found this very interesting snippit about psychopaths.

When a psychopath feels that his manipulations are not working, he will always always always as a last resort use the pity play. He will be very sad, disappointed in you, and claim to be unfairly treated. It is very predictable …

January 11, 2008 – 9:54 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Random, Technology | Comments (1)

Inquisitor and David Watanabe

Well I was going to write a whole big blog post on this, but this guy just said pretty much everything I wanted to. Watanabe is a complete ass, and a cursory search gives lie to his protests of being a good guy just trying to earn a buck. He’s a sleaze-bag.

For extra …

January 10, 2008 – 3:36 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Random | Comments (0)